Nick Doll quit his bartender gig at Crabby Bill’s seafood in St. Petersburg, Florida, and moved to Key West. He found a spot behind the bar at Schooner Wharf but it wasn’t long before he rekindled his creative fire with a favorite pastime — taking photographs. “There was a few Canon A-1s hanging around my […]

There was a big crowd at Tropic Cinema to see the works of local artists in a 72-hour film challenge. Participants in the challenge had 72-hours to create, write, film and edit a film up to seven minutes in length. They also had to incorporate two film genres, to end up with interesting and entertaining […]

“Some friends and I were in Havana to ring in the New Year,” he said from his cottage’s book-crowded living room. “December, 1959, and Fidel Castro was ‘on his way’ to Havana. We were part of a mob of people who fled to Miami.”

When he arrived in Miami, some friends decided to visit Key West.

“Loved it on sight!” Kirby said. “My friend and I bought our first house. It was where the Banyan timeshare is now, on Whitehead Street.”

JT Thompson coined the philosophy “One Human Family” in 2000 after spending four years trying to come up with the perfect phrase to unite all people. “The first time I got the idea was in 1976 at an anti-Anita Bryant demonstration in Hollywood, CA. (Anita Bryant was an outspoken opponent of equality for homosexuals) when […]

John and Judy Correa own the successful Café Solé on Southard Street, where Chef Correa offers fine dining during the evenings. So why, with 19 years of running the unique eatery, did the couple decide to open Bistro Solé on White Street? “I wanted to offer French food for everyone, at a fair price,” Correa […]

Pizza originated some 600 years ago in Napoli, Italy, and it’s cooked the same way at Onlywood Tratoria in Old Town. “Our oven was forged in Italy and reaches 1,000 degrees when most wood fire ovens get to only 600. It must be that hot to make pizza how it was originally perfected,” said co-owner […]

“I think those qualities are open-mindedness, they are really generous, fun, and have a great sense of humor,” she said from a wicker chair nestled in the gardens of The Studios of Key West. “A higher percentage of the people here have those qualities than just about anywhere else.”

A free event is planned for Sunday, March 29 that honors the biggest attraction in the Florida Keys – the coral reef. “Ocean recreation and tourism is responsible for 33,000 jobs in Monroe County,” said National Marine Sanctuary Superintendent Sean Morton. “That is 58 percent of our local economy and $2.3 billion in annual sales.” […]

It’s time for our town’s biggest event, and it’s the Florida Keys second largest event behind only Fantasy Fest. That’s right – it’s Seafood Festival Weekend! While everyone knows that the real star of the show is the fresh Florida Keys seafood, and the Festival itself is a celebration of our commercial fishermen and their […]

Seafood lovers can savor a “fisherman-to-fork” feast of indigenous fish, shrimp, lobster and stone crab claws at Marathon’s sumptuous signature foodie fair, the Original Marathon Seafood Festival, set for Saturday and Sunday, March 8-9. More than 20,000 revelers are expected to descend on Marathon Community Park, MM 49 oceanside, to munch on mahi-mahi, crackers piled […]